Residential care home · Kent

The Avenues Care Centre

1-5 First Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 2LF

Requires improvement Safe: Requires improvementEffective: Requires improvementCaring: Requires improvementResponsive: Requires improvementWell-led: Requires improvement Rated 3 years ago

CQC rating

Requires improvement
Published 4 March 2023 Rated 3 years ago ?
  • SafeAre people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?Requires improvement
  • EffectiveDoes care achieve good outcomes and a good quality of life?Requires improvement
  • CaringAre staff kind, compassionate and respectful?Requires improvement
  • ResponsiveAre services organised to meet people's needs?Requires improvement
  • Well-ledIs the home well managed, with a culture of high-quality care?Requires improvement

Earlier ratings ?

  • June 2022Requires improvementSECRW
  • February 2021Requires improvementSECRW
  • March 2019Requires improvementSECRW
  • March 2017GoodSECRW
  • May 2016GoodSECRW

The home changed owner or registration. Earlier ratings are on the CQC website: previous registration ↗.

Read the full report on the CQC website ↗

How it compares in Kent

The Avenues Care Centre is in the Requires improvement tier ?, with 90 other homes in Kent. 79% of rated homes here are Good or Outstanding (England: 82%).

  • Outstanding 17 (4%)
  • Good, with Outstanding areas 15 (3%)
  • Good 287 (59%)
  • Good, with an area to improve 44 (9%)
  • Requires improvement 91 (19%)
  • Inadequate 8 (2%)
  • Not yet rated 23 (5%)

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The Avenues Care Centre at a glance

Premiere Care (Southern) Limited runs The Avenues Care Centre, a residential care home in Margate, Kent with room for 62 residents. CQC registers it to look after older people, people with dementia and people with mental health needs. That is larger than most homes in Kent, where the typical home has 24 beds.

CQC rated it Requires improvement overall and in all five key questions in March 2023. It was also rated Requires improvement at the inspection before, in June 2022.

About 0.1 km away, Willows Care Southern Limited is rated Good. Its kitchen was rated 5 for food hygiene in October 2026. That is true of 90% of homes in Kent. 90 other homes in Kent share its tier, “Requires improvement”.